The Sun. — London, England, 1808-04-25 00:00:00

4 , JP A.II:ERICA4 PdPERS. WASHINOTONT,' . FEE. tti :.—The PRESIDENT this day communicated the following' important Message to Congress: ~- . • 1 "To THE SENATE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 01' THE U/(1 - TED STATES. . " The dangers to our country, arising fro t tp,the contests of other nations, and the urgency of mak ing preparati o n for w hatever events might affe'd . ostr relations with them, have been intimated in preceding Messages to Congress. To secure 'ourselves by due precaution, an augme,neation of our Military Force, as well Regular as of Volun teer Militia, seems to be expedient. The precise extent of that augmentation cannot as yet be satin , liktorily suggested; but that no time may be. lost, nd *specially at a season deemed favourable to the ,obj , ..lat, I submit to the wisdom of the 'Legislature, ,whether they will authorise a commencement of this precautionary, work, by a present provision,..(Or raising' and organizing sonie additional force; re serving to themselves to decide its ultitnale ettetif; on arch views of our situation as I may be enabled to it' - Oient at a future day °lithe Session. " If an increase of force be now approved, I sub- ' mit to their consideratiOn the ()Whiles of a plan pro , posed in the inclosed letter from the Secretary of War. • " I recornenend to the attention of Congrieas the term at which the Ati 'of April 18, 180, concern ing the Militia, Will expire, and the elle& of that expiration. ' i " Feb. 25, 1808." " TH. JFI'Fr.RSON." ' ! -- The uccompanying documents consist eft , a letter from the Secretary of Nirnr to the President, with 'two detailed stateine,uts;---The lett& follows : .. WarDeparitbetit, Feb. 2..4, 18.)8. i "- TO THE rREsiDEN I-4 .., &C. " Sin--I take the liberty of suggC"sting whether, I , 'tinder existing circumsta nc es, it wou ld ri ot b e advis able to propose to Congress an augmentation 'of our, regular troops, as' soon as predicable; and arso the V - engaging and organizing, of twenty-four thadsaiid volunteers, on the principles I have had the hon6nt of proposing for your consideration, the general out . -: lines of which are contained' in the Paper marled 1 .. NO.. 1. ' "The number of regular troops . I would propose being raised imenediatly, is - six *thousand, to be com f- poled of suitable proportionti of infantry, artillery, cavalry, and r,irlemen.,.. and organized, as stated in the inclosed Paper, No. 2. . "It may b e 'p resume d t h at previo u s ' t o the close of the present Session, Congress will be possessed of such further information in regard to our former : . relations, as will b e necessary f or f orm i ng a b plli . mate opinion oa the expediency of a greater aug''' anentation or our army than is now proposed ; , and; i in the mean time measures maybe taken tor the recruiting service in different parts of th 6 Viiiled States. . ~.- .. .- " In the event of war, it will, I presume, - .be considered necessary- to arrange our military foree into 'separate departments, 'and 16 Gave a Corn mender to ei.ich department, and of -course, to have no such'Oificer as a Commander in Chief, and until a larg , r arniy shall . be raised than is now_proposed, • it may not be adviseeble ao have any Officer above the r.aik of Brigadier-General ;--of that g rade it i .Y. May be proper to have four or five,- as soon as a suit able proportion of the troops is rais.,:d. With Kiiii ments, erc. &e. H. DEARBoRN." ' r New YoRK, MAR en 10.—At a meeting of the Federal -Republicans of the City and County of Phila delphia, an the7th inst. JAMES RoSs, Esq. of Pitts burg, was pnt in nomination for the Office of Go verntir, at the nest Election. &mot: SNYDZR, Spaaker o: the Assembly, is the Deinocrai is tent. Mr. Ross was the .unsuccessful Candidate When Gov. MrKeAN was elected. The next Pre,idential EleCtion ltasvalledforth the tAlents,of the most ingenious writers of . tvery exertion 'is in Operation by the Partizans of the different Candidates to effed their 'particular view. The main' contest will most probably, be' between Guy. CLINTO'N and Mr. MADISON'. The eminent 'serNiicesol, both entitle them to public gra titude, and it appears that the preference 'given to either arises prineipaliy from the desire of States to furnish 'a Presid en t, . n for local reasons. Great offence has been taken by a umber of Members of the House of Representatives on account of the no mination of Mr. MAntsoN, at a late *meeting at Washington. ".ne' 'constitutional has been suestioned, and .considerable opposition 1:1 beet' ' made to the rneasuie in ge.twral. Mr.. MolkiiiUk.is pretentions aro not inocri noticed at Washington; -and it is by some supposed that, he will relinquish his claim. It is underatAod tbit the Court-Martial whit!) lately sat on Commodore BARRON have acquitted him of An the charges alledged against llhn by the Court of Enquiry.. It is strange that the proceedings are not made public. FROM THE " BALTIMORE NORTH AMERICAN." Last Saturday Mr. GARDEN ZEE,' in debate upOrt the Additional Embargo Act, observed, " That there appeared to him to be an invisible hand se cretly guiding the afriirs of the Cabinet, and direct ing the measures of that Home, to forge chains to link them to the chariot of the Gallic Conqueror." This Was taken very much amiss by some of the ma jority, and the House adjourned in a passion. On Monday three of them, Messrs. G.W. CAMPBELL, MONTOOM CRY, and JOHNSON, made use of language of contradittion of an highly personal nature to wards Mr. GARDE-NIEL The latter Gentleman, we understand, sent a ifiessage by Mr. W. to . Mr. CAMPBELL, as, the first in the order of using the expressions, and that it was accepted through Mr. E. Accounts from Washington slate, that in the duel between Messrs. GARDUNIRR and CAMPBELL, the for Mer received a hall which penetrated the thorak, on the right side, as one of the Surgeons supposes, and lodged in the other side. It has been extraded. Our latest intelligence op the subjeCt is dated at six o'clock on Wednesday evening, at which time seve ral Gentlemen returned to Washington from a visit to Mr. GARDENIER, and reported that they,did not consider him as in danger. They 53y the wound is PO) a flesh Wound 3: that he does not bleed ; that his respiration is good, his spirits are unbroken, and he eats and drinks well. • We understand that his second declares thnt be did not intend to fire, and that his pistol was discharged by an involuntary cuntradion of the muscles after • receiving the wound. CANIPEELL and his second returned toWash ington immediately, and took their seats in the J-lipiSe, where they remained during the sitting. • It is 4aid that Mr. CAbiruLL made use of the pis tols of General WILKINSON, which are reputed the best in the (kited States. CONGRESS: I UOUSg OF tEtRESENTATIVES, MARC/1 1. Ur. DA wsbisT, from the Selea Comtpi:tee, report• ed, « a ill authoriwing the sale of Public Arms ;" which' was tieterred to a Committee of the whole to morrow. , • „ • Mr. VANHORVE 911 - drea a neimhittoti, proposing to amend 'the Constitution of the United States, so as to provide that no person shall be eligihle as a Senator or Ropresentat in Congress, who shall "bold any office under the Goverhnienl'of the United States, or who 'shall make any'ccintra& I:vith the Go veroutene. Ordered to lie on the table. 'Mr. TAU...MADGE, from the ComMittee to whom; was referred the President's Message of the Nith ult. reported a Bill authoriiing a iletnehrheM from the M titia of the United States, which was teli:ried to a Committee of the whole to-morrow. The . House went into a Committee of th e wliole on the ".authorising the raising an Additional, • Army," which was brought in by ylr. Dawson. Mr. DAwsor4 said &would be observed that thii Bill authorised the raising of the number of men propoiied by the.Seeretary of War [w'hose letter was published last week]. He therefore moved to fill • the ,bkitik in the first Se4lion with the word " rive," so as to provide thtii the men shall be enlisted for • that term. Agreed to. W. , ....ftma• CONGREiSS, FHB, £4.' Mr: NEwToN, from the Committee o f C ommerce and Mannfidures, reported "a hill to permit John and Samuel .Gardner llaby, and John Princ e , t o dispatch a Vessel'to - Sierra Leone, on the coast of AWca." . Mr. J: CLAy wished: to knoW whether, by the AQ laying an Embargo, the President In td not the power to permit Vessels to depait from the United States. If be had not, a general relief ought to be given to the merchants : for he knew several mer chants in Philadelphia, whose circumstances .sere as hard as those of the persons menticined in* thi4 Mr... .NEWTON' said, that the-power given to the Ptesident•by the first Section of the . Einhargo Mt had been •constrned'to •relate onitto vessels carr);itt ditipatches.. When the Bill which he thia.morning, presentod (in addition 16. the Ad supplementni - y to thelinhargo.A6t): should come before the Hone, lie, intended to offer a'SeCtien to give the Presi,',ent discretional . ) , power in cases. ' The Bill WM then ordered to be • referred to a • !c. Committee of the whdle. ' . ~. There . can no . deubt exist, that trance has been. . , ww....6.• ' ' • ' '. . • informed by 114.1. 1%1 Mister to this Country, of the New-C)eLeANs.—We have hid no opportunity Probability of an 'embargo in- our poris, and in- of conversing with a respeclable Gentleman,'from tends to d e t a i n our S h i ps '- for the ,purpose. of in- ' the city' of Washingten, who informs that letters fi uencing ow decisions, and to seize theta if w . d ,, , bad been received by the express mail, .from New nut cleela to i n iiiro ur of their vi ews . ' .‘" 7 Orleans, dated the bth ult. whence it appetted thAt . whilst ourattetition is s o anxiously turned to •Gcnler[d MOIMAii I13(i arrived, and had waited upon the French Consul ; that a tensiderable number of the movements" of Franc e , we must also r e il e Ct . that at this period cireu.ustances of imoorrane e must Frenchmen, who were .strangers, hid, within the Nye occurred in England. The _news of Our Ern- ten preceding days, made their appearance in the bargo roust . before this time have re"ed them 1. city; that several British Ships of War were said to there 16 goo a and, with ou t ant i c i pat i ng evil, the ' • ;be otf the Month of the Mississippi ; and theta feel - CAM to suppose that Great Britain will dutain those ing of alarm and apprehension prevailed, which,' ships ' • belonging to, us which are its her harbours, as - without re pos;ng upon any distinct circumstances as hostages fur, our future cond u ct t owar ds her. the cause, ; gave much uneasiness with respect to the We cannot expect the arrival of our Ships from i future. ..... • , the Continent of ,Enrope or from England. which: - () will bring any GENERAL: MORBA4.—Much apprehension has . intelligence later that.) the latter part 'been 'enteriai4d and many SpeculatiVe ideas advanc- Of ... February-, and it must have beery on this . account' ed'relative to this Gentleman's tour to New Orleans. T at our Government has not received intelligence ': - 4 few days since it was even surmised, that his aim siltylt w i ll tor those 'who are' abroad, to reap great advan.! expedition, the nature of which has riot been explain- ge, it they seize the lucky moment. Unfortu- ed. Those who know him intimately can vouch ?lately for us the European Governmenti are too that he never would be guilty of a dishonourable aa. expeclitidus in all their ministerial transactions. The man who has acquired well-earned glory in the The int e lli gence which,, has excited .so • much service of a country , from which he eapericitced In ai arm, relative to the re-assembling the conspirators gratitude, would be the most improbable agent who under 7 the influence of could.be employed; and it is equally improbable IgUHR and BLiNNERHASSEIT• 3 i s fortunately totally unfounded. It appears, from that such a distinguished charaeler would becotne etteis received of a late date from Orleans, that the the agent of England, His tour has been merely a, i ~public mind is at present in a more calm state than , , journey for the purpose of instruaion and :ioise, 1 ttllas 'been, fora considerable time pest. Etth rts .- nient. He arrived ice New. Orleans tlie22d January, have; .,,m., been made through Louisiana, by some restless : And his .leparturei 'from thence was to have taken ct , gogues, ,to excite ceunotion, but, , through thiSA..place on' or' before the 1 oilt . of February, on his route at:liVity of the G4voimilOnt, Drier and trauluißitv i., to New York. This informatiOn is derived iron' are %tin restored, 'I undoubted authority, • ihOti THE NATIONAL It:TELLIGENCER. A Si.ipplernental journal of such. proceedings as during th vette tiwy were depending, wcroiderixt to be kepi secret and resiiteting which the injunaion of secrecy was after wards PO Vtit. 'F FIE ., 5 3 . A confidential-message in writing was received from the President of the United - States by Mr. Coz. - us, bi 4 Secretary, as followtth TO THE SENATE AND liptlSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OP u UNIT.ED STATES. I inclose for the information of, Congress letters recently received loom our ,Illinisters at Paris and London, cothmunicating t heir represtm ta t 41'14 against the Lite Dectbes and Orders of France-and Great Bri tain, heretofore transniitte,l to Congress. These do cuments will contribute to the information of Cdn gress, as to the dispositions of these Powers, and the probable course of their proceedings • towards neu trals ; and will doubtl,!is have their due intineace in adapting the measures of the Legislature to the actual crisis. Although nothing forbids the general matter tit these . letters from being spoken of without res.-rye, yet as the publication of etiors of this description would restrain injuriously the freedom of our ljteigril correspondence, they are ,curritnunicated, so tar co— fidentially, and with a request that after being . read to the sacisfaaion of both houses, dirk way b re turned. , TH. Jekl.ll ft SON February 184 q Tile said Message and Papers accompanying the ' ! same !ring rid, . ....,A4ur,timt..ioQo • made by Mr. Qitcnr, awl se couch,:l, that the House do come tZ the fvilowiog • i jtesolutioti:— . . Resolved, That previcrs to a return of the Papers accompanying the Message of the Pr,.sident of the United States, this day communicated, the Clerk of the House take and copies hereof. And on the question that the House do now pro ceed to take the said proposed Resolution into con sideration, _ . It passed in the negative. Aa u ther motion was made by Mr. QUtNCEY and seconded, that the House do come to the following Resolution Resolved, That the President of the United. States be requested to lay before this House such letters recently received from - the American Minister at Paris as accompanied the said Minister's representa tions against the_late DecVees and Orders of France, communicated to Congress in his message of this day, under such restrictions', as' in his opinion . the public interest may require. And on the question that.the House do now pro ceed to take the saki motion into Coll6lder4ioli l It passed in the negative, yeas Go,. nays 024 EAST INDIA SHIPPING INTELIAGENCE. ASIATIC Mtartoa, Nov. 4. —By hettf:trs from Rangoon, of the 96tb of September, we learn, that a vessel called the Regina hail arrived there trom the Nieubars, by which, information was 'received at Rangoon, that the French Frigate, Ceinnanier had touched "at the•Nteobar Islands on the 210th of Au gust; and, after taking on board 'too butts of water, plundered the Island of 'whatever pie, poultry, amid other livestock fell in their way. NOVEMBER 25. —The Prize;-In; ster Rut on board the re-captured' Brig Paperiment, oh 'rtrbeing taken by the Sentillante, give; -au account of tile .captUre of two Bengal Stir by that .Prigate ; he . minim re;-; collect their names though he mentions their Corn menders. These . -circumstances, Connected: with , some others; corresponding exactly to the /Mired and Elizabeth, leave little or no room to doubt of the capture' of both - these valuable Ships ; the Gil well, it is imagined, has escaped. Information from Gangatn states, that the Cciumnier and Vildefe Privateers are both in the lay. A.' Trivateer has alio sailed fur the .Persiari Guiph, in quest of British Merchantmen itt that'quarter. The loss to Calcutta, on the ilithea,.Eliza bet/r, arid Giheell, if. captured, • is estimated at iiieS of rupee 4 •Dacritsitit he American Ship Traveller, fron t . Bourbon the 4th of 06tober, arrived at ..K.ed. geolte on Monday la,t. The f 1u will Ships were, at Kedgeree on the 30th of November, • the' Cuniqn, Fanny, True iiineri‘an, Brig 2e7elliachus, Supeno", gra , and Yds/it:cm - rim— The „igercary Packet : itrrived- at Calcutta We 14th of November last. Tho- two fishermen of Brighton, of the names of FlLghes 'and Kitiicl. whose return we mentioned on Saturday, state, that while fi'daing, they had bean suddenly.surprieed by a French Privateer, who threw her grappling iron, on board their boat, and COM.. 'idled them") to shift their quarters.' The sea at this time ran very high, and the boat and the Privateer being thereby driven in contact, both received cob 7 siderable injury, the chain ',elite grappling, irons being severed by the shock,. the boat become uneonhited, and was left to the mercy of tile wind and tide. The Captain of t he' Privateer now stated to the fishermen that it was not his intehtiOn to make Prisoners of them, but merely, as several of our critizers were then visible off Sealokd, to prevent their giving in fortnation to them of an Enemy being in the Chan nel, o have taken them and their boat farther out to sea, and then to have given them their liberty; as it was, he said, should he be fortunate enough to take a prize, a boat might be procured for them to return home in; This not happening, they Were taken to Dieppe, and confided there as Prisoners, until an order was received from the Government for their liberation, which happened on Tuesday even ing last, and on the following morning a boat was given them, with the British flag flying at the mast head, wettable them to mike the best of their way for England. In their progress across the Channel, they fell in withsthe Sparrow/sofa Sloop of War, who took them •on board and towed their bOat into Seaford; liom whence. they again set sail in their boat, and reached" Brighton about seven o'clock on the same (Aiming. Being known' to several indivi duals at Dieppe, the fishermen while there; through their influence, were treated very kindly. Among other presents which they received, the Lodge of FreemasoAs there sent them 'four guineas. • Jt is confidently asserted by the friends of Captain R.imica, and there can be no rason for doubt on the occasion, that the Letter which appeared in ti, of the 4, 3 4 d, 'under the signature of that Gentletnan, was not written or signed by him or with hii knowledp or OnScntf SOCIETY of fiNTIQUARIES LOA/D.IIV, Saturday last being St. George's Day, the S'ociety of Antiquarto mot at their Aparttnehts , in Somer. set /lace, i,ursirance of thei r Statutes and Chdr. ter of lueof-poration, to elect a President ; CouneN and oi - fivers of the S'ociety for the year ensuing whereupon • . The most Noble George, Mar- Sir H. C. Engkfield, Tr lt. quis Townslieri4 iii 4 Carl of A. Hamilton. D. I). Leicester, Viscount 11401e:ton, F. A. Bernard, Esq.' • S. Lys..‘ris, Es q. . W. Ilrai, Es t! I C. Uri,. tisit:. N. Carlisle. ' Lsg. J. Wi:etihsiii. Hag. , F. Douii:, P.s*ii. Eleven cif the Council; were re-eltosen of the oeri Council ; and • John I, r.i flishp.olLtri4l , ll, .Phtll,- Earl of Harthiaickei T. Crntle, ' 1.. Hatton list, plover, 'E Ls; •- '1'114: Rt. lion. Grenville, W. A , l, ! riteo, t; q. L'ite ;tiraville, M. Raper," Esq• Ten other Mo.art*ri 6f the Society, were chosen the ne u Council, und'.were sevriallkdcdared to bei - the Council tor the .year ensuing ; and on a report inadp of the Officer* °lithe Society, it appecirvd that The Mott NotiL.G•ote, Marquis TowitsurND and E:-tri oflJEtcr.sTßA.',%,l6.r.::e6t,:cl Pre4idAit. k\rryt, BRAY, E q. S. LySoNS, gev. T. W. WEIPGIITE, Secreury ; •tind CAkustai; Eq. Seat: tar). (Or 4iit! ell6i,111;4„ The Society alter w:irds dined tog( her at v,e Crool and Anchor Tavern, in the Strand, accoalipg - to rin• ntisi ciotoin. • lidY grilTOR, ~-. I ohs:;rve stated in a Paper of thi4.day, that before Capt. inwits sawed from Jeremie ; on the ttlt ult. he had been nab' trkd I t• " A letter had .been , received and made ptibli from General' LE Kt tic, cocomatidifig Pt: r i oz e s inces employed a : :;;thist N.rt de Rtix and dat.:4.tho latter O(PCbruitry, in which he stales), that he had made Lis approaches close to. the gates of Port de Pak, at the:. head of 4000 infantry, with a pro portionate number of Cavalry d artillery, and 'that he was preparing to attack it in gotio. Asucond ter was received from General:l,E MARc, in. March ; which announced the complete success of the 7 eter.“ prise, and positively stated that he u.:O in /poiegliion of Port de Paix. rfloese accounts, which Were con.; sidered as official, were published Jeremic, by Gqntral GICRRIN, Commander in Mel ot Pt:Times troops., lip to the departure of the Saqr, ham , Jeremie, no additional particulars relative to Vol de' Pais had reached .that plaCe." . . , I positively and scoletonly deiAare, I dined with General who comtua:ids at Port de Paix, at Cape Francoht, on the I Ith lAttrch ; I pd t hat bin 'the 4th alt waqwri-ctly tranquil that "quarter, To.rnorrow 1 . shall he prepared with the con:elu,iori to my letier of ,Fridoy. '.April 24. tios. GdODALL. Mr: FBRov i sorr . ,was receUtly married to the 106' Countess of Li .qt . • • . The neW E.1 . 0t of Curaarctes, was tepreseatd at - rain . on Saturday last at 'Drifry-lafe Theatr,), with 6'401 cm•taihnents as much .unproved its general! efie,a. It k ccriainly a very showy, and magnificent. Spcaide, but it has with truth beentoty,erved,,thati• a' morn prripltiOus Nubjtta. 'Might have been seleCierk, thin the conquest of a 13ritisli -I,\Tonarcli, who' was. „ taken in chains to' Roire, own 3'06; 1 14 atrord us such triutnilv. nu foreign' ground, as •11145c3, (i - CRBEISY POIC7•IER3,.aIId'AGINC:R;itT• • Royal; I-luNi t y. z -The, following aro some further particulars of th'elitier which took place on day :—The et Ct.:NI/MM.:IND ac , :omPani-• ed by the IVl.irqu,.; OiIiNWALLI3 and Captai_, Vy ss . Thedeer that was hunted is called thl kieudun deer; from the circumstance of its .tiaiing given. several excellent chases, and being taken at Hendon. Ho made double back towardsHarniw Wiled Cum.:non, "here he wile taken in 4 stnall. fi lit. belonging to thO, Marquis . biAßSßPOßN, at Statimore. This rerna4co able fine deer . would have been killed by a :feW hounds who ..were greatly a-head of, the rest, had it not been for Mr. Mi.t.:Es,-a forward sportsman, who,, kept them off till the whippers-in eittild Up. Tho weather was very-inuch against the sport, the' wind' r, was very stiong,' and rain Or sleet fell the whore, day. Most of the horses were knocked up in the course of, the chase. Five or six camein without th6ir riders. The country Was so much inclosed that they ct Old not make their leaps. : , At the conclusion of this,tive hours' taint, several of the horses werosoextrein , ly exhausted that they were taken very i fortnnaitt— iy, Mr. Mau, the \''''eterinary Doctor, Was i,c the hunt, end he rendered them isninediale' assistance; he likewise dressed the 'wound' of the cackey hkr, the breiser's elerk.at Windsor, which he roceived in ,his leg by riding against a post. • The house of a widow, in the neighbourhood of InVerness,,. was lest week destroYed by acc id enta l tire, aad the paor Woman perished in the flame s ; irl dining, on the following day, for her remains, ii2t grand-child, a tine boy, eight years of age, who was supposed to have been absent, wag found in a corner, under e mass of burning ruin, without having sus. tained• any injury. CLIRIN , EXCIiANOK, APRIL 25 .--"There is but a sliort supply of Wheat to-day, and the samples,sold readily at an.increase of price of full is. per quarter; Barley likewise in short supply, and rather dearer; Malt also; White Pease rather cheaper ; Beans of both sorts clearor; there are but few Oats, and !hey ale full as dear as last week ; no alteration iri Flour, SMITHFIF:j.D.MAIUKET, APRIL ZS. This day's- market afforded a pretty good snpply of prime Beasts, and tho . shew of Cattle . idother tespe6is wag rather considerable; - Beef is rly:'apr thatt °nib:A report; Lamb is dearer; Mutton, Pork, andYeal suiTort lzvt prices, and the trade in genera was tolerably brisk. 'file sales in the Haymarket were somewhat lively ; Hay, Stiaw., and Clover told at last price,;---Th , undermentioned prices and nuntbl.4rs are a eorrc‘'.:t dratentent til,lC the 011;t1 per store Gl' CI tied 4g. loci. to 'ss. e1d..."-Altitti7t , od. 6d.—Veal „ 7s. oft. to 4:41 . —Lamb 6s. cd. Ss, 6d, t 9 Beasts, I,Bso..—Shep:atid Lambs, Pigs, :5,1, sI, 0.;. re 61, :6s. 6d.—Clovar 61. c 4, vii. is 71. 7i. 14.--';traw id. o*. vi* TO zi, od.